

Remember, in today’s age, seeing is not believing.

Later, it came to light after an interview with Sputnik, that the claims of Tabar undergoing plastic surgery to look like Jolie was actually wrong, and the results were thanks to, well, “technology”. Nineteen-year-old Sahar Tabar’s pictures splashed all over the Internet with the claim that she underwent 50 surgeries to look like her Hollywood idol Angelina Jolie and sent shock-waves across social media. The ‘zombie’ Angelina Jolie lookalike ‘after 50 surgeries’ Turns out the viral story on photos of the Iranian teenager with claims that she went through 50 surgeries to look like Angelina Jolie was a hoax! (Source: Americo Sperandio/ Facebook/File Photo)
WHATSAPP NEWS ALERT MAY 2017 FULL
We would like to clarify that this video is completely untrue and contains hoax content designed purely for sensationalism.” Read the full story here.Ģ. (Source: File Photo/Twitter)Ī clip showing an elaborate wedding card, allegedly with pure gold plating, was doing the rounds of various social media platforms, with rumour mills buzzing that this invite could be that of Mukesh and Nita Ambani’s eldest son, Akash Ambani. However, Reliance Industries Ltd quashed the news saying: “A fake video illustrating an alleged wedding card of Mr Akash Ambani – Board Member, Reliance Jio, is being currently circulated on various social media and instant message platforms. Akash Ambani’s viral ‘wedding card worth Rs 1.5 lakh made of gold’ This invitation card being touted as Akash Ambani’s wedding announcement is a hoax. Here are 15 such instances when most online users found themselves in a muddle after the truth behind each one was discovered.ġ. While social media is a great place to share news and have some fun as well, people need to be wary of sensationalised news that may not be true. A trend of fake news being widely shared across social media platforms right from Twitter to Facebook and WhatsApp was witnessed many times, to the extent that “fake news” was also named word of the year by Collins Dictionary due to its widespread use around the world.Ī UK-based lexicographer found that the use of “fake news” registered a 365 per cent rise in the last 12 months, reflecting Trump’s consistent use of the word, as well as the hoax stories that went viral this year. Defined as “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting,” it has directly affected news reporting all across the globe. (Source: File Photo)Īs 2017 comes to an end, looking back at the various news points that trended this year, it’s disturbing how fake news pretty much ruled the Internet on multiple occasions. It does not store any personal data.Here’s all that went viral but turned out to be a hoax in 2017. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin.

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